How Fast You Got There (EP) (2012)
In the First Place
Cross no lines.
No, don’t make a sound love.
Tear this house from the ground up
and I’ll find us both again.
Pale blue lights,
the sirens are screaming now.
I’m a stranger in my hometown.
I’d leave but my feet weigh ten-thousand pounds.
So I’m forced to stick around.
Why did you love me in the first place—
give me something that I could barely taste?
Cause it kills me to know
in seven days you’ll be letting go of something.
It’s us or what you loved your whole life.
All that I pray is I’m not second in line.
Was it the thrill, the thrill of the chase?
Why did you love me in the first place?
Give up your ghost
and give me your reasons why.
You could feed me a thousand lines.
They all sound just the same.
Who loved you most?
You are the things you’ve thrown around.
You’ve become a thief on your own, and now
you’ve robbed me of things I’ve known.
I am better off alone.
It got hard to imagine
all those things we thought might happen.
All those plans, they went south.
It’s out of my hands, what’s coming out of my mouth.
Of all the hearts that you’ve harassed,
which of these did you really mean to last?
credits
from How Fast You Got There (EP)
released June 1, 2012
Words and Music written by Alex and Emily McCollum
license
© 2012 Stagbriar